Team
Paule Pastré
Paule Pastré is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology of the University of Bern. She is currently working on the interface between climate change mitigation and the protection of foreign investors in the energy sector through international investment arbitration. She graduated in Social Anthropology from the EHESS (Paris), where she conducted research on the rights of nature movement, after obtaining a degree in Art History from the Ecole du Louvre (Paris) and a Maitrise’s degree in Law from the Université Paris Saclay (Paris).
Matthieu Bolay
Matthieu Bolay is a social anthropologist. He leads the SNSF project Arbitrex at the University of Bern and is an associate professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland – HETS Geneva. He obtained his PhD from the University of Neuchâtel and has worked at the London School of Economics (doc.mobility), at HEP Fribourg, and at the Graduate Institute Geneva. He does research in legal and economic anthropology in which his interests are concerned with knowledge politics, norm making, and valuation practices, and their interplay in the governance of supply chains, labour, mobility and migration.
Johannes Knierzinger
Johannes Knierzinger is Senior Lecturer for Development Policy at the Department for Development Studies at the University of Vienna. In his dissertation he worked on the socio-economic impact of bauxite mining in West Africa. Most recently, he has compared the resource crises of the 1970s and the 2000s with a focus on EU-Africa relations.
Manon Fragnière
Manon Fragnière is pursuing a MA in Social Anthropology at the University of Bern. Her interests range from political anthropology to the anthropology of the modern-state and transnationalism. She obtained a degree in Political Science from the University of Lausanne.
